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FC Porto vs. Club Atletico de Madrid Watch Live HDQ Video Online UEFA Champions League

2009-09-21T15:27:00.000-07:00

FC Porto's first home game in the 2009/10 UEFA Champions League renews their rivalry with Club Atlético de Madrid, who they removed from last season's competition in the first knockout round on away goals with the teams drawing 2-2 in Spain and 0-0 at the Estádio do Dragão.

• This time round both have a point to prove after Matchday 1, when Porto went down 1-0 at Chelsea FC while Atlético were unexpectedly held to a home goalless draw by debutants APOEL FC.
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Previous meetings
• It was Lisandro's double at the Vicente Calderón that ultimately made the difference for Porto against Atlético last season, the 2-2 draw in Spain meaning the Portuguese champions reached the quarter-finals for the first time since lifting the trophy in 2003/04 with a scoreless second leg.

• The teams for the first leg on 24 February 2009 were:
Atlético: Franco, Seitaridis, Antonio López, Forlán, Raúl García (Maniche 67), Agüero (Sinama Pongolle 56), Maxi Rodríguez (Miguel 80), Paulo Assunção, Ujfaluši, Simão, Pablo Ibáñez.
Porto: Helton, Bruno Alves, Lucho, Lisandro (Sektioui 90), Cristián Rodríguez, Hulk, Rolando, Raul Meireles (Tomás Costa 90), Săpunaru (Pedro Emanuel 79), Fernando, Cissokho.

• The teams for the return on 11 March 2009 were:
Porto: Helton, Bruno Alves, Lucho, Lisandro (Farías 90), Cristián Rodríguez, Hulk (Mariano 89), Rolando, Raul Meireles, Săpunaru (Tomás Costa 83), Fernando, Cissokho.
Atlético: Franco, Antonio López, Raúl García (Maniche 73), Agüero, Maxi Rodríguez (Forlán 54), Paulo Assunção, Sinama Pongolle (Miguel 79), Ujfaluši, Simão, Perea, Pablo Ibáñez.

• The teams had previously met only once in a competitive fixture, the 1963/64 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup first round. That went Atlético's way thanks to a 2-1 home win, the game in Portugal ending scoreless.

• Last season's draw extended to six Porto's sequence of home games against Spanish opponents in UEFA club competition without a win. In that time they have lost three and drawn three.

• Porto's last victory at home to a Spanish side came in October 1999 when they beat Real Madrid CF 2-1 in the UEFA Champions League first group stage.

Match background
• Porto's interest in last season's competition ended in the quarter-finals when Manchester United FC won 1-0 at the Estádio do Dragão after a 2-2 first-leg draw. It was Porto's second home defeat of the campaign after a 1-0 reverse against FC Dynamo Kyiv on Matchday 3. In the group stage they recorded home wins against Fenerbahçe SK (3-1) and Arsenal FC (2-0).

• Before the Dynamo defeat, Porto had lost just one of 21 home ties in the competition, winning eleven.

• Atlético have never lost an away game in the UEFA Champions League, disregarding qualifying ties. Last season they started their first campaign in the competition for eleven years with a 3-0 win at PSV Eindhoven and followed that with stalemates away to Liverpool FC (1-1) and Olympique de Marseille (0-0) before their draw in Portugal.

• In the 1996/97 edition they gained two away wins and a draw in the group stage. They then drew 1-1 at AFC Ajax in the quarter-finals but bowed out with a 3-2 home defeat.

Team ties
• Atlético midfielder Paulo Assunção has had two stints with Porto. In 2000/01 he made 36 appearances for the B team and returned in 2004 for a four-year stay.

• Winger Simão, who was named Portuguese Player of the Year in 2007, has had spells with Porto's main domestic rivals, Sporting Clube de Portugal (1996-1999) and SL Benfica (2001-2007).

APOEL FC vs. Chelsea FC Watch Live HDQ Video Online UEFA Champions League

2009-09-21T15:25:00.000-07:00

APOEL FC could hardly have chosen more illustrious opponents to mark their home debut in the UEFA Champions League as they welcome Chelsea FC, who have reached the semi-finals or better in five of the last six campaigns, to Nicosia. Although the teams have never previously met nor faced a club from their opponents' country, both should be in buoyant mood after creditable results on Matchday 1, APOEL marking their first group-stage appearance with a scoreless draw at Club Atlético de Madrid while Nicolas Anelka's goal proved enough for Chelsea to see off FC Porto at Stamford Bridge.
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Match background
• In the qualifying rounds APOEL won all three of their home games, starting with a 3-0 home victory over EB/Streymur which eased them through 5-0 on aggregate in the second qualifying round.

• In the next stage APOEL beat FK Partizan 2-0 at home for a 2-1 overall win and then in the play-off round against FC København overturned a 1-0 first-leg deficit with a 3-1 home success.

• However in UEFA competitions proper, the Cypriot champions have a poor recent home record. In the UEFA Cups of 2000/01, 2003/04, 2005/06 and 2008/09, home defeats in the first round contributed to their eliminations.

• APOEL did defeat Grazer AK 2-0 in the 2002/03 UEFA Cup first round first leg, winning 3-1 on aggregate, but in the next stage lost 1-0 at home to Hertha BSC Berlin and bowed out 4-0 overall.

• Chelsea failed to win on their travels in last season's group stage, drawing with CFR 1907 Cluj and FC Girondins de Bordeaux either side of a 3-1 defeat at AS Roma.

• Since a 2-1 defeat by Fenerbahçe SK in the 2007/08 quarter-final first leg, Chelsea have played seven away games in the UEFA Champions League, not including their defeat in the 2008 final in Moscow against Manchester United FC. They have drawn five, won one and lost one.

Team ties
• APOEL midfielder Nuno Morais signed for Chelsea from FC Penafiel in August 2004 soon after José Mourinho had taken charge of the London club. He made his debut in an FA Cup victory over Scunthorpe United FC in January 2005 but made only two subsequent appearances in the Premier League against Manchester United and Everton FC before joining the Cypriot club in May 2007.

• Michael Ballack scored Germany's goal in a 1-1 draw against Cyprus in the GSP Stadium in a UEFA EURO 2008™ Group D qualifier on 15 November 2006. Marios Elia, Konstantinos Charalambides, Chrysostomos Michail were on the opposite side with Michalis Morfis an unused substitute.

• Petr Čech played for the Czech Republic as they beat Cyprus 1-0 in Liberec in a UEFA EURO 2008™ Group D qualifier on 28 March 2007. On the opposing side were Marinos Satsias, Elia and Charalambides.

Real Madrid CF vs. Olympique de Marseille Watch Live HDQ Video Online UEFA Champions League

2009-09-21T15:22:00.000-07:00

On the last occasion Real Madrid CF played host to Olympique de Marseille it proved a night for the star names with Roberto Carlos, Ronaldo twice and Luís Figo all on the scoresheet in a 4-2 home victory. With a new generation of Galácticos making an instant impact via a 5-2 win at FC Zürich in the first round of games – when Marseille went down 2-1 at home to AC Milan – the Santiago Bernabéu will be hoping for a repeat performance on Matchday 2.
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Previous meetings
• That 4-2 win, and a later 2-1 victory for Madrid at the Stade Vélodrome, came in the 2003/04 UEFA Champions League group stage, the only previous fixtures between the teams.

• In the first game Didier Drogba shot Marseille ahead before goals from Roberto Carlos (29), Ronaldo (34, 57) and Figo (61 pen) turned the game around, despite Daniel Van Buyten's late consolation for the visitors.

• Iker Casillas and Raúl González were in Madrid's starting lineup for that game on 16 September 2003, with Guti a 73rd-minute substitute.

• In the return on 26 November a David Beckham free-kick set Madrid up for another win which was secured by Ronaldo's late drive after Mido had headed Marseille level. Casillas and Raúl again played 90 minutes, with Guti once more a late replacement.

• The Spanish side have drawn their last two home fixtures against French visitors, both against Olympique Lyonnais in the 2005/06 and 2006/07 group stages.

• Marseille lost 2-1 at Club Atlético de Madrid in last season's group stage. In five visits to Spain their best result was a goalless draw at RC Celta de Vigo in the 1998/99 UEFA Cup quarter-finals that took them into the last four 2-1 on aggregate.

• Madrid beat Stade de Reims Champagne 4-3 in the first European Champion Clubs' Cup final in 1956 and then defeated the same opponents 2-0 three years later to claim a fourth successive crown.

Match background
• Los Merengues lost twice at home in last season's UEFA Champions League, going down 2-0 to Juventus in a group match and losing 1-0 to Liverpool FC in the first knockout round first leg en route to a 5-0 aggregate defeat. FC BATE Borisov (2-0) and FC Zenit St. Petersburg (3-0) were both beaten at the Santiago Bernabéu in the group stage.

• Marseille lost all three away games in last season's group stage, following the defeat by Atlético with reverses at PSV Eindhoven (2-0) and Liverpool (1-0).

• With reverses at FC Porto and Beşiktaş JK in the 2007/08 UEFA Champions League group stage, the French side have lost five successive away games in the competition proper since winning 1-0 at Liverpool in their first tie on the road in 2007/08.

Team ties
• Zinédine Zidane was born in Marseille and spent five seasons with Madrid between 2001 and 2006, scoring the winning goal in their 2-1 victory in the 2002 UEFA Champions League final against Bayer 04 Leverkusen.

• OM's Fernando Morientes picked up three UEFA Champions League winners' medals with Madrid between 1997 and 2005. He scored in the 2000 final in a 3-0 win against Valencia CF, as did Raúl.

• Morientes spent 2003/04 on loan at AS Monaco FC and scored in both legs of the UEFA Champions League quarter-final as they ousted Madrid on away goals after a 5-5 aggregate score.

• In Morientes' final appearance for the Spanish national side, a 1-0 home victory against Iceland on 28 March 2007 in a UEFA EURO 2008™ qualifier, his team-mates included Casillas, Sergio Ramos and Xabi Alonso.

• Gabriel Heinze swapped Madrid for Marseille in the summer after two years with the Spanish side.

• Alonso was in the Liverpool team that beat Marseille 1-0 at Anfield in last season's group stage on 26 November 2008.

• Karim Benzema joined the Olympique Lyonnais academy at the age of nine, eventually leaving the French side for Madrid in the summer. The striked scored three goals in five league appearances against OM, including two on his last trip to the Vélodrome in Lyon's 3-1 win on 17 May 2009.

• Fernando Gago and Heinze are team-mates in the Argentina national team.

• Heinze and Kaká were on opposing sides when Argentina faced Brazil in a FIFA World Cup 2010 qualifying tie earlier this month, the latter's team running out 3-1 victors.

AC Milan vs. FC Zurich Watch Live HDQ Video Online UEFA Champions League

2009-09-21T15:20:00.000-07:00

Twelve months after they were drawn together in the UEFA Cup first round, Matchday 2 provides AC Milan and FC Zürich with the chance of an early reunion on European club football's grandest stage. The pair come into the fixture in contrasting mood after the first round of games; the Italian giants were 2-1 winners at Olympique de Marseille thanks to Filippo Inzaghi's double while Zürich were beaten 5-2 at home by Real Madrid CF.
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Previous meetings
• Milan will be looking to repeat last season's superiority over their Swiss opponents in what was their first-ever meeting. In the first leg at San Siro, an own goal from Florian Stahel put the home team in front in added time at the end of the first half. Pato and substitute Marco Borriello then extended the lead before Dušan Djurić pulled a goal back.

• In the second leg Andriy Shevchenko's 70th-minute goal completed a convincing Milan victory.

• The teams for the first game in Italy on 18 September 2008 were:
Milan: Dida, Daniele Bonera, Kakha Kaladze, Luca Antonini, Marek Jankulovski, Clarence Seedorf, Massimo Ambrosini (Emerson 68), Mathieu Flamini, Kaká, Pato (Marco Borriello 65), Andriy Shevchenko (Ronaldinho 75).
Zürich: Johnny Leoni, Daniel Stucki, Heinz Barmettler, Hannu Tihinen, Florian Stahel, Silvan Aegerter, Tico, Dušan Djurić, Almen Abdi (Admir Mehmedi 88), Alexandre Alphonse, Eric Hassli (Adrian Nikci 77).

• The Rossoneri's only other competitive meeting with a Swiss side came in the 1993/94 UEFA Champions League first round when Jean-Pierre Papin's strike at FC Aarau proved the only goal of the tie.

• Zürich have won only one of six meetings with Italian opposition, a 3-0 home defeat of Empoli FC in the 2007/08 UEFA Cup first round second leg.

Match background
• Milan's last home game in the UEFA Champions League finished in a 2-0 reverse against Arsenal FC in the 2007/08 first knockout round and elimination by the same aggregate scoreline. It ended a run of five successive quarter-final berths in the competition.

• Defending the crown they won for the seventh time in May 2007, Milan had earlier posted wins in all three home group games.

• Milan are on a run of five wins in their last seven UEFA Champions League home games with one draw and one defeat having recorded two wins and a draw in Italy in the 2006/07 knockout rounds.

Team ties
• Johan Vonlanthen appeared as a late substitute for Switzerland in last month's goalless friendly international against Italy in Basel. Gianluca Zambrotta and Andrea Pirlo were among the oppostition.

• Milan's Marek Jankulovski played for the Czech Republic in a 1-0 win against a Swiss team including Vonlanthen in the opening fixture of UEFA EURO 2008™ in Basel.

• Jankulovski and Finland's Hannu Tihinen were on opposing sides in the Czech Republic's 4-3 defeat of Finland in a FIFA World Cup qualifier in Teplice in March 2005.

• Tihinen also met Alessandro Nesta and Zambrotta as Finland twice went down 2-0 against Italy in qualifying for UEFA EURO 2004™.

• Vonlanthen and Xavier Margairaz played for Switzerland in a November 2006 friendly in Basel against a Brazil team containing Ronaldinho. Brazil won 2-1.

• Djurić appeared as a late substitute as Sweden won 1-0 in a friendly international in Goteborg in August 2007 against a United States team containing Oguchi Onyewu.

Manchester United FC vs. VfL Wolfsburg Watch Live HDQ Video Online UEFA Champions League

2009-09-21T15:18:00.000-07:00

Buoyed by three points on their UEFA Champions League debut, VfL Wolfsburg now face the prospect of visiting Manchester United FC for their first away fixture in the competition. The German newcomers could hardly have been handed a more daunting trip than to Old Trafford, where United have not lost in 21 UEFA Champions League matches.
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Match background
• Sir Alex Ferguson's United have not lost a home game in the UEFA Champions League since a 1-0 defeat by AC Milan in February 2005.

• The Premier League champions recorded three wins and three draws at home en route to the final of last season's competition.

• United's last meeting with German opposition at Old Trafford was a 2-0 victory against VfB Stuttgart in the 2003/04 group stage.

• This is Wolfsburg's maiden trip to England, although they did emerge victorious from their first encounter with an English team last season – beating Portsmouth FC 3-2 in the UEFA Cup group stage with goals from Edin Džeko, Zvjezdan Misimović and Christian Gentner.

• Wolfsburg lost only once in four away matches in the 2008/09 UEFA Cup and earned a creditable 2-2 draw at Milan to secure first place in their section.

Team ties
• Sir Alex has twice claimed European honours against German clubs – his Aberdeen FC side defeated Hamburger SV to land the 1983 UEFA Super Cup and United beat FC Bayern München in the 1999 UEFA Champions League final.

• Wolfsburg coach Armin Veh oversaw Stuttgart's away-goals defeat by Middlesbrough FC in the 2005/06 UEFA Cup round of 32. The Bundesliga side won the second leg 1-0 in England, but it was not enough to undo the damage of a 2-1 home loss. Those two games were Veh's first taste of European competition as a coach.

• United forward Dimitar Berbatov scored twice in eight Bundesliga matches against Wolfsburg during five and a half years with Bayer 04 Leverkusen.

• Wolfsburg striker Obafemi Martins was on target for Newcastle United FC in a 1-1 draw at Old Trafford on the opening day of the 2008/09 Premier League season. His other visit to the stadium with Newcastle ended in a 2-0 defeat in October 2006.

• Wolfsburg midfielder Misimović played two games alongside United's Owen Hargreaves at Bayern in the 2003/04 Bundesliga, both of them wins.

• Misimović was in the 1. FC Nürnberg side that lost 2-0 at home to Everton FC in the 2007/08 UEFA Cup group stage.

• Karim Ziani has played at nearby Anfield twice in the group stage in the last two years, Olympique de Marseille beating Liverpool FC 1-0 in October 2007 and the scoreline was reversed last November.

• Wolfsburg goalkeeper Diego Benaglio was in the Switzerland team beaten 2-1 by England in a Wembley friendly in February 2008.

PFC CSKA Moskva vs. Besiktas JK Watch Live HDQ Video Online UEFA Champions League

2009-09-21T15:16:00.000-07:00

PFC CSKA Moskva and Beşiktaş JK will meet for the first time in their Group B encounter on Matchday 2 with the home side hoping to reproduce the fine form they showed at the Luzhniki Stadium in 2008/09.
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Match background
• CKSA recorded five straight home wins last term as they advanced to the UEFA Cup round of 16. To have any chance of progressing from Group B they will have to improve on their efforts in Moscow during their last UEFA Champions League campaign, when they took just one point at the Luzhniki in 2007/08.

• Besiktas have their own grounds for improvement – the visitors suffered from a severe case of travel sickness on their last appearance in the UEFA Champions League group stage in 2007/08, losing all three away games, including an 8-0 reverse at Liverpool FC.

• CSKA have had mixed fortunes against Turkish opposition. In the 2007/08 group stage they finished bottom of their section after a home draw and away defeat against Beşiktaş's city rivals Fenerbahçe SK.

• In the 1971/72 European Champion Clubs' Cup first round they beat Galatasaray AŞ 3-0 at home to complete a 4-1 aggregate success.

• Beşiktaş are unbeaten against Russian opposition, their most recent encounter with a Premier-Liga team coming in the 2005/06 UEFA Cup group stage when they drew 1-1 at home to FC Zenit St. Petersburg.

• The newly returned Beşiktaş striker Nihat Kahveci will have fond memories of the club's only other encounter with a Russian outfit – a 6-1 aggregate triumph over FC Lokomotiv Moskva in the UEFA Champions League third qualifying round in August 2000. Nihat found the net in both meetings, a 3-0 home win and the ensuing 3-1 triumph in Moscow.

Team ties
• CSKA coach Juande Ramos was in charge of the Sevilla FC side that recorded a 3-0 home win against Beşiktaş in the 2005/06 UEFA Cup group stage, going on to lift the trophy.

• Beşiktaş coach Mustafa Denizli finished on the losing side in Moscow with former club Kocaelispor, suffering a 2-1 reverse at Lokomotiv in the 1997/98 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup second round – and eventual aggregate defeat by the same score.

• Denizli returned to Russia as coach of the Turkish national team in April 1998 and lost 1-0.

• Beşiktaş defender Matteo Ferrari enjoyed a UEFA Cup victory against CSKA in the 2002/03 first round. Ferrari's Parma FC drew 1-1 in Moscow then prevailed 3-2 back in Italy. CSKA's Deividas Šemberas, Elvir Rahimić and Aleksei Berezutski featured in the second leg.

• Nihat was in the Villarreal CF side defeated on away goals by Zenit in the 2007/08 UEFA Cup round of 32.

• CSKA's Mark González featured as a substitute for Liverpool FC in a 3-2 victory against Fenerbahçe in the 2006/07 UEFA Champions League group stage.

FC Girondins de Bordeaux vs. Maccabi Haifa FC Watch Live HDQ Video Online UEFA Champions League

2009-09-21T15:14:00.000-07:00

FC Girondins de Bordeaux coach Laurent Blanc will hope to turn the clock back to his playing days when Group A rivals Maccabi Haifa FC visit the Stade Chaban-Delmas on Matchday 2.

• Blanc was in the Manchester United FC side that defeated the Israeli team 5-2 in the visitors' first-ever UEFA Champions League group-stage match back in September 2002, lining up against the Haifa pair of Alon Harazi and Yaniv Katan.
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Match background
• Bordeaux have never faced Israeli opposition before but Haifa have taken on French teams three times previously – and used victories against them as a springboard for lengthy European runs.

• Haifa earned a 1-1 draw at Paris Saint-Germain FC on their only previous visit to France in the 1998/99 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup first round, Yossi Benayoun taking just two minutes to cancel out Marco Simone's 84th-minute goal for the hosts.

• Nir Davidovitch and Harazi both featured in the Haifa lineup that day with Katan an onlooker from the substitutes' bench.

• The Israeli club went on to defeat PSG 3-2 in the second leg, Alon Mizrahi getting a 90th-minute winner to spark a run to the quarter-finals.

• Haifa opened their 2006/07 UEFA Cup group stage campaign by beating AJ Auxerre 3-1 on 19 October 2006 through goals from Alain Masudi, Gustavo Boccoli and Roberto Colautti.

• Davidovitch, Katan, Harazi, Boccoli and Dekel Keinan all featured from the present Haifa squad. Haifa went on to qualify for the knockout phase of that season's UEFA Cup, eventually reaching the round of 16.

• Bordeaux have suffered just one defeat in their last ten home games in UEFA club competition. That was a 3-1 reverse against AS Roma in last term's UEFA Champions League group stage where they claimed four points on home soil.

• Haifa recorded two wins and a draw on their travels in qualifying for the group stage.

Team ties
• Bordeaux coach Blanc scored two goals for France in a 4-0 FIFA World Cup qualifying victory against Israel in February 1993.

• However, he was also in the France team stunned 3-2 by Israel eight months later – the first of two home defeats that ended their hopes of qualifying for USA '94.

• Bordeaux defender Diego Placente played against Haifa on their previous appearance in the UEFA Champions League group stage, featuring in the Bayer 04 Leverkusen team that beat them 2-1 in Germany on 23 October 2002.

• Davidovitch and Katan appeared for Israel in a goalless draw with France in a World Cup qualifying tie in Paris in September 2004. Katan featured in the countries' subsequent 1-1 draw in Tel-Aviv in March 2005, when Harazi was on the bench.

FC Bayern Munchen vs. Juventus Watch Live HDQ Video Online UEFA Champions League

2009-09-21T15:12:00.000-07:00

Two of European football's great names go head to head again on Matchday 2 when FC Bayern München meet Juventus in Group A. The sides experienced mixed fortunes in their opening games, Bayern winning 3-0 at Maccabi Haifa FC while Juve drew 1-1 at home by FC Girondins de Bordeaux.
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Previous meetings
• This is the fifth encounter between the sides, who met previously in the UEFA Champions League group stage in 2004/05 and 2005/06.

• Juventus recorded 1-0 wins home and away against Bayern in 2004/05. The Bianconeri prevailed in Munich on 3 November 2004 through a 90th-minute goal by Alessandro Del Piero. It was the last time Bayern lost at home in the UEFA Champions League group stage.

• The lineups that evening were:
Bayern: Kahn, Sagnol (Görlitz 46, Scholl 69), Lucio, Robert Kovač, Salihamidžić (Guerrero 90+2), Hargreaves, Ballack, Frings, Schweinsteiger, Pizarro, Makaay.
Juventus: Buffon, Zambrotta, Thuram, Cannavaro, Pessotto, Camoranesi, Emerson, Blasi, Nedvĕd, Del Piero, Ibrahimović.

• The teams traded 2-1 home victories when they met the following season. Sebastian Deisler and Martín Demichelis struck first-half goals when Bayern beat Juventus in Munich on 18 October 2005, Zlatan Ibrahimović replying late on for the visitors.

• The sides were:
Bayern: Kahn, Sagnol, Lucio, Ismaël, Lizarazu (Schweinsteiger 30), Zé Roberto, Demichelis, Ballack, Deisler, Makaay, Santa Cruz (Scholl 88).
Juventus: Abbiati, Blasi (Chiellini 46), Thuram, Cannavaro, Zambrotta, Camoranesi (Del Piero 46), Giannichedda, Emerson, Nedvĕd, Trezeguet (Mutu 66), Ibrahimović.

Match background
• Bayern beat ACF Fiorentina 3-0 at this same stage last term, Miroslav Klose, Bastian Schweinsteiger and Zé Roberto scoring.

• Juventus lost 3-2 at Werder Bremen on their most recent visit to Germany in the first knockout round in February 2006, surrendering a 2-1 lead late on after Pavel Nedvĕd and David Trezeguet had found the net.

• The Turin club lost European Champion Clubs' Cup finals against German clubs in 1983 (Hamburger SV 0-1) and, with Ciro Ferrara in the team, 1997 (BV Borussia Dortmund 1-3). They defeated Dortmund 6-1 on aggregate to land the UEFA Cup in 1993.

Team ties
• This is the first meeting of the two coaches since the 1996 UEFA Champions League final in Rome when Bayern's Louis van Gaal was in charge of an AFC Ajax side beaten on penalties by a Juventus team featuring Ferrara, his present-day Bianconeri counterpart.

• Van Gaal had led Ajax to victory against another Italian side, AC Milan, in the final 12 months earlier.

• Van Gaal also guided Ajax past Juventus's city rivals, Torino FC, in the 1992 UEFA Cup final.

• Van Gaal last faced Italian opposition in the 1999/00 group stage, guiding FC Barcelona to a 4-2 win at home to Fiorentina and a 3-3 draw away.

• Ferrara was in the Juventus side that beat Bayern 1-0 in Turin in October 2004.

• The Juve coach was also in the SSC Napoli team that got the better of Bayern in the 1988/89 UEFA Cup semi-finals, drawing 2-2 in Munich to complete a 4-2 aggregate success.

• Juventus midfielder Hasan Salihamidžić spent nine years with Bayern from 1998 to 2007 and was part of their UEFA Champions League-winning team in 2001.

• Bayern's Italy striker Luca Toni played against Juventus for US Città di Palermo and Fiorentina in Serie A. He was on target for Fiorentina in a 1-1 draw at Juventus in April 2006.

• Bayern's Arjen Robben appeared as a substitute for Real Madrid CF when they lost 2-1 at Juventus in the 2008/09 group stage.

• Juventus playmaker Diego was unbeaten in three visits to Bayern's stadium with Bremen – helping his old club earn one win and two draws, finding the net once.

AZ Alkmaar vs. R. Standard de LiÃ¨ge Watch Live HDQ Video Online UEFA Champions League

2009-09-21T15:08:00.000-07:00

AZ Alkmaar are among the newcomers in this season's UEFA Champions League but few of the established élite can match a formidable home record in UEFA club competition that reads: played 33, lost one. R. Standard de Liège will be the first team to challenge that in Group H.

• Each must bounce back from Matchday 1 reverses, AZ going down 1-0 at Olympiacos FC while Standard suffered a 3-2 home loss against Arsenal FC despite taking a 2-0 lead within five minutes thanks to goals from Eliaquim Mangala and Milan Jovanović.
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Previous meetings
• The sides, both in the UEFA Champions League group stage for the first time, have both had only two previous fixtures against sides from their opponents' country and their results have been the same – a win at home and an away defeat.

• AZ progressed in their 1980/81 UEFA Cup quarter-final against KSC Lokeren OV 2-1 on aggregate while Standard lost to Feyenoord on away goals in the 1973/74 UEFA Cup third round after a 3-3 aggregate draw.

Match background
• AZ have lost just once in 33 European home games since making their UEFA club competition debut in September 1977 – an 11-1 win against Red Boys Differdange at the Alkmaarderhout.

• The Dutch champions kept that remarkable run going at their new DSB-Stadium until 20 December 2007 – their last European tie before this season – when Everton won 3-2 in the UEFA Cup group stage.

• Standard lost away in the UEFA Champions League third qualifying round in both 2008/09 and 2006/07, going down 1-0 against Liverpool FC after extra time in August 2008 and 2-1 against FC Steaua Bucureşti two seasons earlier. With the home leg ending in a draw in both cases, it meant the Belgian side missed out on a place in the group stage.

• Standard then took their place in last season's UEFA Cup and suffered 3-0 defeats at VfB Stuttgart in the group stage and at SC Braga in the round of 32, the latter effectively ending their competition. Their other away game in the group brought a 1-0 win against FK Partizan while there was a 2-2 draw at Everton FC in the first round.

Team ties
• Cor van der Hart and Georg Kessler have coached both clubs.

• Coaches Ronald Koeman and Laszlo Bölöni were opposing captains in a friendly between the Netherlands and Romania on 1 June 1988 in Amsterdam. The hosts won 2-0 in a game that proved Bölöni's 108th and final cap. A few weeks later Koeman lifted the UEFA European Championship trophy with the Oranje.

• AZ's Sebastien Pocognoli, Maarten Martens, Gill Swerts and Moussa Dembélé and Standard's Igor De Camargo, Axel Witsel and Steven Defour are all team-mates in the Belgian national team.

• AZ defender Ragnar Klavan faced Defour and Witsel when Estonia played Belgium in a FIFA World Cup qualifier at Standard's Stade Maurice Dufrasne home on 6 September 2008. Belgium won 3-2.

Arsenal FC vs. Olympiacos FC Watch Live HDQ Video Online UEFA Champions League

2009-09-21T15:06:00.000-07:00

Arsenal FC boasted a five-year unbeaten home run in the UEFA Champions League before Manchester United FC's semi-final victory last season and will be looking to start rebuilding the fortress as Olympiacos FC come calling in Group H.

• The teams recorded contrasting victories on Matchday 1, Arsenal recovering after conceding twice in the first five minutes to win 3-2 at R. Standard de Liège while a late header from Vassilis Torosidis proved enough for Olympiacos at home to AZ Alkmaar.
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Previous meetings
• Although the team have never met before they have experienced contrasting results against teams from their opponents' country. Arsenal have lost just two of ten fixtures against Greek opponents with five wins and three draws.

• Olympiacos have won only two of 16 fixtures with English sides, losing eleven. They have lost all eight away games, conceding 27 goals and scoring just once. That came at Anfield in a 3-1 defeat at Liverpool FC on Matchday 6 of the 2004/05 UEFA Champions League, a result which sent the English club into the knockout stages at the expense of their opponents and, ultimately, to a fifth European title.

Match background
• Arsenal's run in last season's competition came to an end in the semi-finals where a 3-1 home defeat by Manchester United completed a 4-1 aggregate defeat. It was the first time the Gunners had been beaten at home in 24 matches in the UEFA Champions League proper, a run which stretched back to April 2004.

• It was also their first UEFA Champions League defeat at the Arsenal Stadium in 18 matches there, including qualifiers. Twelve of the first 17 ended in home wins.

Team ties
• Zico, who was named Temuri Ketsbaia's successor as Olympiacos coach on Matchday 1, has already tasted success against English opposition this year, guiding PFC CSKA Moskva to a 3-1 aggregate win against Aston Villa FC in the UEFA Cup round of 32 in February.

• The Brazilian has faced Premier League sides on five occasions as a coach, winning both home games including a 2-1 triumph against Chelsea FC in the 2007/08 UEFA Champions League quarter-final first leg while at Fenerbahçe SK. The away leg ended in a 2-0 defeat and elimination, however, and there was also a 1-0 reverse at Newcastle United FC in the 2005/06 UEFA Cup group stage before last season's 1-1 draw at Villa.

• As a player, Zico set up all three goals in CR Flamengo's 3-0 win against Liverpool FC in the 1981 European-South American Cup in Tokyo.

• On the opening day of 2006/07, Olof Mellberg, then with Villa, had the distinction of becoming the first player to score a competitive goal at Arsenal's new stadium. The game ended in a 1-1 draw, one of only two points Mellberg picked up in eleven Premier League meetings with the Gunners.

• Enzo Maresca was an unused substitute for Sevilla FC when they lost 3-0 at Arsenal in the 2007/08 UEFA Champions League.

• Matt Derbyshire helped Blackburn Rovers FC beat Arsenal 1-0 in an FA Cup fifth round replay in February 2007. Earlier that season he came on as substitute in a 6-2 defeat for Blackburn at the Arsenal Stadium.

• Didier Domi was at Newcastle United FC between 1998 and 2001 and was part of the team beaten 5-0 by Arsenal at Highbury on 9 December 2000. The defender also spent 2003/04 on loan at Leeds United AFC.

Rangers FC vs. Sevilla FC Watch Live HDQ Video Online UEFA Champions League

2009-09-21T15:04:00.000-07:00

Recent history will persuade Rangers FC to treat their first home game in this season's UEFA Champions League with caution. The visit of Sevilla FC will remind the Scottish titleholders that they have not defeated visitors from Spain for over 20 years.

• If that statistic was not concerning enough, Sevilla are the early pacesetters in Group G as goals from Luis Fabiano and Renato earned a 2-0 home win against debutants FC Unirea Urziceni on Matchday 1. Rangers, however, can take heart after Madjid Bougherra's late equaliser earned a 1-1 draw at VfB Stuttgart.
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Previous meetings
• The teams' only previous meeting – and the only time Sevilla have faced opponents from Scotland – came in the 1962/63 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup first round. Rangers won 4-0 at home and survived a second-leg scare in Spain, where Sevilla won 2-0.

• Rangers have not won in four home matches against Spanish sides, drawing three and losing the other. Home and away they have not won in nine outings (five defeats and four draws) and have not scored in their last three games.

• Rangers' last victory against Spanish opposition came in the 1985/86 UEFA Cup first round when they beat CA Osasuna 1-0 in Glasgow only to lose the away leg 2-0.

Match background
• Rangers lost their last UEFA Champions League home game 3-0 against Olympique Lyonnais, resigning them to third place in the 2007/08 group stage. They had started off with a 2-1 win at home to Stuttgart before a goalless draw against FC Barcelona.

• That Lyon defeat was Rangers' only dent in a sequence of 20 home games in UEFA club competition, including qualifiers, which includes ten wins and nine draws.

• Their previous UEFA Champions League campaign, in 2005/06, was their most successful to date as Rangers became the first Scottish side to reach the knockout stages. At home they beat FC Porto 3-2 and followed that with draws against FC Artmedia Petržalka (0-0) and FC Internazionale Milano (1-1). In the first knockout round they drew 1-1 at Villarreal CF but lost out on away goals having drawn 2-2 at home.

• In their only previous UEFA Champions League campaign two years ago, Sevilla started with a 3-0 defeat at Arsenal FC but then recorded victories at FC Steaua Bucureşti (2-0) and SK Slavia Praha (3-0) to finish top of the group.

• In the first knockout round they lost 3-2 at Fenerbahçe SK and with the game in Spain producing the same score, the Turkish club went through on penalties.

Team ties
• Sevilla have fond memories of Glasgow having lifted the 2007 UEFA Cup at Hampden Park with victory on penalties against Liga rivals RCD Espanyol following a 2-2 draw after extra time. Sevilla's goals were scored by Adriano and Frédéric Kanouté, while Andrés Palop made three saves in the shoot-out.

• Kanouté and Rangers midfielder Pedro Mendes were team-mates at Tottenham Hotspur FC between 2003 and 2005.

• Sevilla's Sébastien Squillaci and Jérôme Rothen of Rangers were both in the France team that drew 0-0 at home to Israel in September 2004.

• Rangers striker Nacho Novo began his playing career in Spain with SD Huesca, then in the fourth tier.

• Former manager Jock Wallace, who in 1976 and 1978 guided Rangers to the treble of league title, Scottish FA Cup and League Cup, was Sevilla coach between 1986 and 1987.

FC Unirea Urziceni vs. VfB Stuttgart Watch Live HDQ Video Online UEFA Champions League

2009-09-21T15:01:00.000-07:00

It is a quick return to Romania for VfB Stuttgart who face FC Unirea Urziceni in their first away game in the UEFA Champions League, one month after a significant victory in that country helped ensure their group-stage place.

• Both teams have food for thought after Matchday 1, Unirea going down 2-0 at Sevilla FC while Pavel Pogrebnyak's goal against Rangers FC was only enough to give Stuttgart a 1-1 home draw.
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Previous meetings
• Although the teams have never previously met, Stuttgart, third in the Bundesliga last season, qualified for their third group-stage campaign after coming through a play-off test against another Romanian side, FC Timişoara. Markus Babbel's team won 2-0 away through first-half goals from Timo Gebhart, a penalty, and Aleksandr Hleb before a goalless draw in southern Germany.

• In their only other fixture against Romanian opponents, Stuttgart beat FC Rapid Bucureşti 2-1 in the 2005/06 UEFA Cup group stage.

• In their only previous home fixture against German opponents, Unirea lost 2-0 at home to Hamburger SV in the 2008/09 UEFA Cup first round to bow out of the competition after the away leg had ended scoreless.

Match background
• In their 2007/08 group stage Stuttgart lost all three of their away games, conceding nine goals and scoring four.

• In 2003/04 the German side won one of their three away group matches – at Panathinaikos FC – and lost two, scoring four and conceding five. They progressed to the first knockout round where they drew 0-0 at Chelsea FC having gone down 1-0 at home.

• Taking their three away games in last season's UEFA Cup into account – a loss and a draw in the group stage and then defeat by FC Zenit St. Petersburg in the round of 32 – Stuttgart have won only one of their last seven European fixtures on foreign soil in either the UEFA Champions League or UEFA Cup proper.

Team ties
• Stuttgart's Romanian striker Ciprian Marica will come up against international team-mates Vasile Maftei and Iulian Apostol.

• In last season's UEFA Cup first round, a Rapid Bucureşti team with Maftei in their ranks lost to VfL Wolfsburg. The defender scored in the home leg which ended 1-1 after the current Bundesliga champions had won 1-0 in Germany.

• Unirea coach Dan Petrescu was in the Chelsea side that beat Stuttgart 1-0 to win the 1998 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup final in Stockholm.

• Petrescu and Babbel came face to face as Germany played Romania in the UEFA EURO 2000™ group stage. The game in Liege ended 1-1.

• In the following season the pair locked horns again as Babbel's Liverpool FC team overcame Petrescu's Bradford City AFC 1-0 at Anfield in a Premier League fixture on 19 August 2000.

FC Barcelona vs. FC Dynamo Kyiv Watch Live HDQ Video Online UEFA Champions League

2009-09-21T14:58:00.000-07:00

Holders FC Barcelona will go into their Group F home game against FC Dynamo Kyiv as strong favourites to collect three points but the history between the sides suggests the evening may not prove so straightforward.

• Barça were held to a goalless draw at FC Internazionale Milano on Matchday 1, when late goals from Ayila Yussuf, Gérson Magrão and substitute Oleh Gusev gave Dynamo a 3-1 home win against Russian champions FC Rubin Kazan.
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Previous meetings
• The clubs have met eight times previously with four wins apiece – two at home and two away.

• Dynamo would be delighted with a repeat of their last result at the Camp Nou, a 4-0 triumph in the UEFA Champions League group stage on 5 November 1997. Andriy Shevchenko was the hero with a first-half hat-trick.

• Dynamo, who progressed to the semi-finals that season, had beaten Barcelona 3-0 in Kiev a fortnight earlier.

• Barcelona's most recent victory against Dynamo came in the 1993/94 first round when they overturned a 3-1 first-leg deficit with a 4-1 home success through goals from Michael Laudrup, José Maria Bakero (2) and Ronald Koeman.

Match background
• Barcelona lost their last Camp Nou contest against Ukrainian opposition, going down 3-2 against FC Shakhtar Donetsk in last term's group stage, although Josep Guardiola's side had already secured qualification for the next phase.

• Dynamo defeated another Spanish side, Valencia CF, in the UEFA Cup round of 32 last season. Two goals from Artem Kravets earned them a 2-2 draw at Mestalla and victory on away goals after a 1-1 home draw.

• Dynamo conceded just one goal in three matches and collected four points on their travels in the UEFA Champions League group stage last term.

Team ties
• As a player, Barcelona coach Guardiola featured in home and away wins for the Catalan club against Dynamo in the group stage of the 1991/92 European Champion Clubs' Cup. Guardiola was also in the Barcelona team that beat Dynamo in the first round two seasons later.

• Shevchenko is not the sole survivor of the sides' last encounter at the Camp Nou in 1997. Goalkeeper Olexandr Shovkovskiy also featured in the Dynamo lineup while Carles Puyol was an unused substitute for Barcelona.

• Shevchenko was also in the Milan side that lost to Barcelona in the 2005/06 UEFA Champions League semi-final.

• Shovkovskiy was the Ukraine goalkeeper beaten four times by Spain in a 4-0 defeat in the countries' opening match at the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

• Barcelona forward Thierry Henry had mixed fortunes against Dynamo with former club Arsenal FC in the 2003/04 group stage. He was in the side beaten 2-1 in Kyiv, scoring Arsenal's goal, but also took part as the Gunners won the home return 1-0 to gain revenge.

• Zlatan Ibrahimović struck twice for FC Internazionale Milano when they overturned a two-goal deficit to earn a 4-2 win against Dynamo coach Valeri Gazzaev's former club PFC CSKA Moskva in the 2007/08 group stage – a result which eliminated CSKA.

FC Rubin Kazan vs. FC Internazionale Milano Watch Live HDQ Video Online UEFA Champions League

2009-09-21T14:53:00.000-07:00

The European football spotlight will shine for the first time on Kazan, capital of the Russian province of Tatarstan, when local favourites FC Rubin Kazan play host to FC Internazionale Milano in Group F on Matchday 2.

• Beaten 3-1 at FC Dynamo Kyiv on their group-stage bow, Rubin are making their home debut in the UEFA Champions League at the Tsentralnyi Stadium. The Italian titleholders shared a goalless draw with holders FC Barcelona on Matchday 1.

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Match background
• Inter are looking for a third successive win on their travels to Russia.

• Kurban Berdyev's Russian champions are newcomers to the international stage and their 1-0 home loss to another Serie A side, Parma FC, in the 2006/07 UEFA Cup first round is their only previous home match in UEFA club competition proper.

• Only Macbeth Sibaya and the recently returned Alejandro Domínguez of the present Rubin squad featured in that game against Parma, Lasha Salukvadze and Nukri Revishvili watching from the bench. Rubin also lost the second leg 1-0.

• Adding qualifying rounds to the equation, Rubin have played five home games against European opposition and have a mixed record of two wins, two defeats and one draw.

• Inter have performed impressively on Russian soil in the past, recording three wins and just one defeat on six previous visits.

• The Nerazzurri's most recent trip yielded a 2-1 comeback win at PFC CSKA Moskva in the 2007/08 group stage, Hernán Crespo and Walter Samuel scoring second-half goals.

• Twelve months earlier they earned a 1-0 victory away to FC Spartak Mosvka at the same stage of the competition.

Team ties
• Domínguez and Inter's Esteban Cambiasso were team-mates at CA River Plate, winning the Argentinian Clausura championship together in 2001/02.

• Rubin midfielder Sibaya was an unused substitute when Rosenborg BK held Inter 2-2 at home in their opening game of the 2002/03 group stage. Sibaya also remained on the bench for Rosenborg's subsequent 3-0 reverse at San Siro.

• With his previous club Chelsea FC, Inter coach José Mourinho oversaw home (2-0) and away (1-0) victories against a CSKA Moskva side featuring Rubin's Sergei Semak in the 2004/05 group stage.

• Semak scored twice away to Parma in the 2002/03 UEFA Cup first round – his efforts in vain as his CSKA side conceded a last-minute goal to lose 3-2 on the night, 4-3 on aggregate.

Debreceni VSC vs. Olympique Lyonnais Watch Live HDQ Video Online UEFA Champions League.

2009-09-21T14:49:00.000-07:00

UEFA Champions League newcomers Debreceni VSC welcome Olympique Lyonnais to Budapest for their first Group E fixture at their adopted home of the Ferenc Puskás Stadium.

• The teams' Matchday 1 engagements each finished 1-0, Miralem Pjanić's late goal giving Lyon victory at home to ACF Fiorentina while Debrecen went down by the same scoreline on their group-stage debut at Liverpool FC.

Match background

• The Hungarian titleholders enjoyed a 100 per cent home streak in the qualifying rounds but Lyon have maintained an excellent record on the road in recent group-stage campaigns, winning ten and losing just two of 15 games from 2004/05 onwards.

• Last season the French club won at FC Steaua Bucureşti and Fiorentina and drew at FC Bayern München.

• Andras Herczeg's Debrecen team won their three home qualifying games en route to the group stage, beating Kalmar FF (2-0) and FC Levadia Tallinn (1-0) at their own ground in Debrecen before they switched to Budapest's Ferenc Puskás Stadium for the 2-0 play-off victory against PFC Levski Sofia.

• While this is the Hungarian club's first home match in the UEFA Champions League proper, they had a decent record in the UEFA Cup. After entering that competition for the first time a decade ago, they recorded only one defeat in six matches, not counting qualifiers.

• Lyon have never faced Hungarian opposition before while for Debrecen this will be only the second time they have played against a team from France.

• Debrecen lost to FC Girondins de Bordeaux in the 2001/02 UEFA Cup first round but only after a spirited fightback in the second leg at their Oláh Gábor Stadium.

• Trailing 5-1 after the first leg, they led 3-0 through goals from Attila Plókai and Zsombor Kerekes (2) before a 74th-minute Pauleta strike ended their hopes.

Team ties

• Debrecen's Paris-born forward Adamo Coulibaly never played top-level football in his home country, leaving AS Poissy in 2007 for Belgian club K. Sint-Truidense VV. Via a spell at R. Antwerp FC he ended up at Debrecen this summer.

• Debrecen forward Gergely Rudolf began his professional career with French club AS Nancy-Lorraine. He spent two seasons in their first-team squad between 2005 and 2007 but made only one starting appearance in Ligue 1.

• Lyon midfielder Kim Källström was in the Sweden team that defeated Hungary 2-1 in a FIFA World Cup qualifying tie at the Ferenc Puskás Stadium on 5 September.

• Källström and Rudolf both scored when Sweden beat Hungary 2-1 in the reverse fixture in Solna on 10 September last year. Debrecen's Zoltán Szélesi also featured in that match with László Bodnár an unused substitute.

• Szélesi made 41 Ligue 2 appearances for French club RC Strasbourg between 2007 and 2009.

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ACF Fiorentina vs. Liverpool FC Watch Live HDQ Video UEFA Champions League.

2009-09-21T13:59:00.000-07:00

ACF Fiorentina welcome Liverpool FC to the Stadio Artemio Franchi aiming to both bounce back from their 1-0 loss at Olympique Lyonnais on Matchday 1 and improve on their home showing in last season's UEFA Champions League.

• The Viola took two points from a possible nine in Florence during the 2008/09 group stage and will know they must do better against a Liverpool side unbeaten on their travels in last term's competition, with three wins and three draws, and who opened this year's campaign with a 1-0 defeat of Debreceni VSC at Anfield.

Match background

• Fiorentina last won a home game in the UEFA Champions League proper in March 2000 – a 1-0 success against Valencia CF – yet they can take heart from an unbeaten home record against English sides in UEFA club competition.

• The Tuscan club have never lost nor even conceded a goal at home against English opposition. Their record is W2 D1 L0.

• Fiorentina beat Liverpool's neighbours Everton FC 2-0 in their last meeting with an English outfit in the UEFA Cup round of 16 in 2007/08. The Viola subsequently lost by the same score on Merseyside but advanced as 4-2 winners on penalties.

• Liverpool's last four away games against sides from Serie A yielded two wins and two draws – as well as four clean sheets.

• Rafael Benítez's side won 1-0 at FC Internazionale Milano on their most recent trip to Italy in the UEFA Champions League first knockout round in March 2008, Fernando Torres scoring the only goal.

• The Anfield team's overall away record against Italian teams is W2 D2 L4. This does not include their penalty shoot-out win against AS Roma in the 1983/84 European Champion Clubs' Cup final at the Stadio Olimpico as, technically at least, this was a neutral venue.

• Liverpool also won their first European Cup in 1977 in Rome, beating VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach 3-1.

• They secured their fifth European crown by defeating another Italian side, AC Milan, on penalties after a 3-3 draw in that remarkable final in Istanbul in 2004/05.

Team ties

• As a player, Fiorentina coach Cesare Prandelli was in the Juventus team that beat Liverpool 1-0 in the 1985 European Cup final, appearing for the final six minutes as a substitute.

• Prandelli had mixed fortunes against English opponents in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup with Juventus, winning one semi-final against Manchester United FC (1983/84) but losing another against Arsenal FC (1979/80).

• Viola front man Alberto Gilardino came on as an 88th-minute substitute for match-winner Filippo Inzaghi during Milan's 2-1 UEFA Champions League final triumph against Liverpool in 2007.

• Fiorentina forward Adrian Mutu faced Liverpool once during a spell in England with Chelsea FC, finishing on the losing side with a 1-0 Premier League defeat at Stamford Bridge in January 2004.

• Per Krøldrup had a short-lived spell on Merseyside with Everton in the first half of 2005/06.

• Liverpool's squad includes Italian internationals Alberto Aquilani and Andrea Dossena, the latter a former team-mate of Fiorentina's Cesare Natali at Udinese Calcio.

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Watch Live FK Dinamo Moscow VS. Celtic in your PC

2009-08-04T20:12:00.000-07:00

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The best teams from the European Competitions will try to become the best of Europe in this Champions League (CL). Mostly the winners of the big leagues and several 2nd/3rd ranked teams in their league are taking part in this competition. Who will be the best of Europe this season? Watch this and you will know!

FK Dinamo Moscow

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Celtic

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2009-08-04T20:11:00.000-07:00

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FC BATE Borisov

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FK Ventspils

Match scheduled: Last updated:	05-08-2009 from 22:00 until 00:00 03-08-2009 on 10:58
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2009-08-04T20:09:00.000-07:00

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Match scheduled: Last updated:	05-08-2009 from 23:30 until 01:30 04-08-2009 on 21:46
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2009-07-27T08:12:00.000-07:00

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FC Inter Baki

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Levski Sofia

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